Drost

See also: drost

English

Proper noun

Drost (plural Drosts)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Drost is the 11355^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2778 individuals. Drost is most common among White (95.75%) individuals.

Anagrams

• Dorts, dorts, dtors, trods

Dutch

Etymology

From drost.

The island is indirectly named after poet and playwright Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1581 - 1647), who occupied the position of drost of nearby Muiden. See also Hooft and Warenar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /drɔst/
• Hyphenation: Drost
• Rhymes: -ɔst
• Homophone: drost

Proper noun

Drost

1. An island in Noord-Holland, Netherlands.
2. a surname

German

Alternative forms

• Droste, Drossart (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle Low German droste, from earlier drossete, drotsēte, drotsāte. Cognate with Dutch drost and Middle High German truhtsæze, whence the doublet Truchsess (“steward of a princely household, sewer”). See there for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʁɔst/
• Rhymes: -ɔst

Noun

Drost m (strong or weak, genitive Drostes or Drosts or Drosten, plural Droste or Drosten)

1. (Northern Germany, historical) reeve, sheriff, bailiff (official in charge of a rural district)

   Synonyms: Amtshauptmann, Landvogt

Declension

Declension of Drost [masculine, strong // weak]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Drost	die	Droste, Drosten
genitive	eines	des	Drostes, Drosts, Drosten	der	Droste, Drosten
dative	einem	dem	Drost, Droste1, Drosten	den	Drosten
accusative	einen	den	Drost, Drosten	die	Droste, Drosten

¹Now rare, see notes.

Derived terms

• Drostei
• Drostenamt

Further reading

• Drost on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “Drost” in Duden online
• “Drost” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Polish

Etymology

Variant of Polish Drozd or from German Droste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /drɔst/
• Rhymes: -ɔst
• Syllabification: Drost
• Homophones: drozd, Drozd

Proper noun

Drost m pers

1. a male surname

Declension

Declension of Drost

	singular	plural
nominative	Drost	Drostowie
genitive	Drosta	Drostów
dative	Drostowi	Drostom
accusative	Drosta	Drostów
instrumental	Drostem	Drostami
locative	Droście	Drostach
vocative	Droście	Drostowie

Proper noun

Drost f (indeclinable)

1. a female surname

Further reading

• “Drost”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022